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Children and Juvenile Law, Keyed to Feld, 6th Ed.
Manduley v. Superior Court of San Diego County
Citation:
27 Cal. 4th 537 (2002)Facts
The petitioners, eight minors, were charged with eight felonies: four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of willful infliction of injury upon an elder, and two counts of robbery, with various enhancements. Four petitioners were 16 years of age or older, and four were 14 years of age or older at the time of the alleged offenses. As authorized by Proposition 21’s amendments to section 707(d), the prosecutor filed these charges directly in criminal court rather than juvenile court. Petitioners challenged the constitutionality of section 707(d) on multiple grounds, including separation of powers, due process, equal protection, and violation of the single-subject rule for initiatives. The case ultimately reached the California Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal held that section 707(d) violated the separation of powers doctrine.
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